Full disclosure: I am a staff member at SEIU. This piece is being cross posted from the International's website.

We don't usually think about home care workers until our parents or grandparents need their services. They are the workers who are in the homes with the patients, and who have to deal with the most intimate responsibilities. They are caregivers who believe that everyone -- no matter their age or illness -- deserve proper care, companionship, and, in many cases, love.

And they deliver!

Most people don't realize that these hard workers are excluded from minimum wage and overtime protections. No matter the intense and often thankless work, many have to have two or three jobs just to make ends meet; yet they are taking care of our parents and grandparents in ways we cannot.

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Filene’s Basement is a popular clothing retailer known for its exceptional prices on brand name clothes. Now, thanks to the largest successful organizing campaign in Local 1102 history, when shoppers take advantage of the great prices and products at the store, they’ll be shopping RWDSU

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Leo W. Gerard, USW International President sent in this post to UR today.

 In the piece he writes: 

For 110 years America has reigned as the world’s number one manufacturing nation. Next year, China is expected to wrest that title from the United States.

Last year, the U.S. manufactured $1.7 trillion worth of goods; China fell second at $1.6 trillion. Next year, China is expected to edge out America with production worth $1.87 trillion.

Please click through to this important piece and pass it along/comment, if you can. 

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This is not real. I am at at a New Media training in Washington, DC. Part of this training is to help run a campaign for a faux Texas Congressional candiate named Peggy Hudson. In keeping with plans, Peggy is posting a blog to UR to reach out to her union supporters. -Richard/UR

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Leo Gerard, USW International President, sent this piece into UnionReview.com In the piece he says, "The trade clash between China and America, the Asian giant has gravely wounded the United States. China knows it. U.S. voters of all political stripes know it. But too many American politicians, are in denial."

 Please a take minute to read throug this and fee free to comment.

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Over 75 Rite Aid workers from the Southwest Distribution Center in Lancaster, CA marched off the job during their lunch break to join supporters from dozens of other unions demanding that Rite Aid management negotiate a good contract.

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Rite Aid workers attended a raucous shareholder meeting in Harrisburg, PA on June 23 where they spoke out for good jobs and showed support for the five-year struggle by more than 550 employees to form a union at Rite Aid's massive distribution center in Lancaster, California.

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Full Disclosure: I am a staff member at SEIU. I posted this piece to a few progressive and labor sites on behalf of a colleague named Cathy Stoddart.

The article is about Nurse to Patient ratios, a very serious, if not deadly issue facing many nurses around the country.

Please take a minute to read through this, comment, share with others.
 

-Richard

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Our resident history Professor Berry Craig asks, "Why is the media so anti-union?" Now, here's a must read!

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Some 450 Spirit Airline pilots, seeking wage parity with workers at other low-cost airlines such as Jet Blue and AirTran Airways, went on strike this weekend. It is the first strike at a major US airline since the walkout by Northwest Airline mechanics five years ago.

While many watching labor activities probably heard this news, what folks might not realize is the enormous show of solidarity from other union members around the country.

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